A Pictorial

VERSION 2 - Published
December, 2004; last update: July, 2010

VERSION 3 - Published
December, 2010; latest update: June, 2011

Yours truly, with new companion

Having reached and exceeded1000 photographed cable-stayed bridges in Europe, the site enters Version 3.

The difference compared to Version 2 is mainly that the list of
not-photographed-bridges has been discontinued, apart from "historic" bridges,
which in most cases do not exist any more, and therefore cannot be photographed.
Therefore, the various pages on this site contain only photographed, existing
bridges.

I wish to remind my esteemed readers and visitors that all
picture contributions to this site are welcome.

INTRODUCTION

The alleged first modern cable-stayed bridge (in the
following: "CS
bridge") was opened in 1956 in Strömsund, Sweden. Since then over 1600 of
them have been built in Europe alone, for all sorts of uses: for cars, for
trains, for pedestrians and cyclists, for industrial uses, and the design
variations are seemingly endless, as can be seen on these pages.

The purpose of this Pictorial is to collect on one site on
the Internet as many as possible
of the European CS bridges, presenting a lot of pictures but otherwise, apart
from location, giving a minimum of
other than visual information. Technical and other
information must be sought elsewhere.

My "job" is to keep pictures and locations up to
date. As indicated
on my Home Page this is a hobby of mine, and I take no responsibility for the
completeness of the material provided, although my intention is to make the list
as complete as possible.

Anyone who visits this Page, and who knows of a CS bridge, regardless of
size,
function or age, which is not included on these pages, is invited to contact me
by e-mail per.wahlin@pwpeics.se, with information
for its inclusion.

The pictures are taken by myself, my family, friends
and colleagues, and by a few other kind contributors. All photographers are named
at their respective picture(s).